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Po stage, Is Bd, ...,,Ssi k t e ,,, ' . and 525. 6d. Postage, la . 10th 'WY. " I t* be made payable to JOLIIINY, bite, PoBt- 0 11484 oce' e a • ~ la es e °l' Lot' 00 I'6 415 I` l' o to 6 of uto". gl oi trlt ug h ' or '3. 130. - a 61 " 0 f 1411 1 g 101' rill Se : V. liel'— $, ski` 1 rD CO° /. `; THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1864. NEW NOVEL BY MR 5. MURRAY. Now ready, Dedicated to the Duchess of Athole, in 3 vols., ELL A NO.R M A I•i. By ELIZABETH A. MURRAY. Also now ready, in 3 Toll; , WILDFIRE. By WALTER THORNBURY. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. The Railway Works at Blackfriars. London is never likely to be known as one of the most beautiful of European capitals, but the natura of its great public works now being completed, or about to be com menced, must surely make it the most wonderful metropolis in the world. Between the railways and the Board of Works there will within the next five years be carries out in the metropolitan district alone a greater variety of the most stupendous engineering works than not only any other capital, but any other country in the world can show. The Main Drainage and Thames Embankments are in them selves achievements which from their cost, difficulty, and usefulness, would suffice to crown the fame of any capital which should carry them out successfully, though these are mere items in the long list of engineering labours now plan ning or being executed in London. The Holborn valley viaduct will be a gigantic work ; the extension of the under ground railway into Finsbury another ; the Charing-cross bridge is acknowledged to be a magnificent specimen of iron work; that for the railway into Cannon-street will, it is said, equal it. If Mr. Yowler carries out his high-level bridge at Limehouse visitors up the river will enter London under an iron gateway, compared to which that at Menai will be an ordinary structure; while further on the railway at Blackfriars will span the river with a bridge which, as far as is yet known, will have no superior. From its size and strength, from the solidity of its workmanship, and the rapidity of its construction, this Chatham and Dover Rail way bridge is long likely to be regarded with wonder. Only last May the first stone of the bridge was laid—in another month the first of its gigantic lattice girders will be in place ready for testing, and by June next it is hoped that all will be complete and the city traffic flowing in to the temporary station in Earl-street. The subsoil at this thoroughfare is all made ground, and one in which it has been exceedingly difficult to find a proper foundation for the massive arches on which the line will thence be carrieJ high over the level of Ludgate-hill, across the site of the old Fleet Prison and down an incline to the station of the Metropolitan Railway in Victoria-street. In seeking for a good foundation in Earl-street the workmen have come upon the remains of what was evidently the old Roman river wall many feet below the present surface, and nearly 200 ft distant from what is now the south bank of the Thames. As this wall was exceedingly difficult to re move,it was thought better to utilize it where it was ; it has accordingly been used as part of the foundations, which here can only be obtained by a perfect structure of piles and transverse beams forced under ground and felled in be tween with concrete. The railway bridge which is to connect the great goods station on the south side of the river with the station in Farringdon-street and Victoria-street is one of the moat important of the works by which these changes are being brought about. The length of this structure between the abutments is just 997 ft, and its width 55ft, it being intended for four lines of rails, not only on the bridge itself but for some distance over its approaches on either side. The whole structure is carried at a uniform level of 32ift above high water. The two shore abutments are of great solidity. They were built in wrought-iron caissons, and contain no less than 223,000 cubic feet of solid masonry, the founda tions being taken 30ft below the surface and down into the London clay. From these abutments four piers carry the main girders across the river, the two spans at the shore ends being 169 ft wide, the two next to these 194 ft, and the centre span of all 205 ft, the longest single span we believe, excepting that of the Britannia -bridge, that has yet been attempted in this country. It is in the piers, however, that the most striking features of this great work consist. The permanent way of the bridge being carried entirely on three i mm ense lattice girders, each so-calledpier, in reality, consists of three disijnet structures or piers,one for each girder, which are built quite se; single plates consist or,7llll2lls inde , of masonry itin4liam b ete u r i tt lt ndw c h i i rc h caissons or wroughtiron tubes e rste and pencleat of each otherin. Theaeular are ' eemetim ' es as much as forced down never less than 30ft, and •_ cacti of these 40ft below the actual bed of the stream. lea. erk and columns of masonry, at Eft above sigh water nse a springing from handsomely ornamented pediments, rise group of four massive cast-iron columns, which united have a total diameter of 14ft. These are joined together at their summits by a massive and boldly ornamented capital about 4ft high, making the total height of he columns from the masonry about 26ft. The cast-iron columns are then built in solid with the hardest description ofbricks laid in cement, and over all are built the wrought-iron main girders. Thus, then, though each one of these groups of stone and iron columns form a pier, yet each pier consists of three distinct columns of stone, surmounted by four distinct columns of iron. The caps of these four columns, by unit ing them together, virtually make one column of them, and the transverse fastenings between tLe three piers in like manner unite their strength; and over all come the main longitudinal girders which carry the wiway, stiffening the whole into one rigid piece—the ends only of each si,an being left free on rollers, to meet the contraction and expansion caused by variation of temperature. Jest now the whole system by which this remarkable structure is being raised can be seen more perfectly than has yet been the case since the works commenced. On the Surrey side the massive groups of cast-lton columns arefiniehed,and peer out grimly through the net-work of timber, more like the beginning of some colossal Egyptian temple than any modern railway work; while on the City side, the last of the great circular caissons, or iron tubes, are being stink, and one can look down and see where the men are quietly at Work in a gloomy sort of twilight, nearly 40ft below the bed of the river. When Messrs. Joliffe and Bankes, the contractors for London bridge, succeeded, after 13 months of unremit ting labour and pumping, in getting their first cofferdam water-tight and empty, all the civic authorities went in state to see the wonder; had luncheon there, and drank the health of the engineers who had wrought this marvel in so short a time. How mach the science of engineering has advanced since that may be judged from the simple fact that from the time of commencing to sink one of the three caissons at Blackfriars till the men are at work in a dry chamber far below the bed of the river, occupies from first to last only a month 1 If the corporation now have any curiosity to dine far beneath the bed of old Father Thames, that time their salle - ci-manger in the London clay can be they have only to sign if y their wish, and in a month from made ready for them beneath any part of the tideway they may choose. Yet, like Columbus's egg problem, nothing can be simpler than they way in which this apparently difficult engineering feat is accomplished. „It may be briefly described thus t—Over the site of the intended column for the pier the traveller brings the first circular wrought iron joint of the tu be. It is li n thick, 18ft diameter, 15ft Long, and weighs 27 tons. It has a sharp edge a t the bottom, but a fiat flange or rim at the top, for the next joint to be laid on it. This is lowered between four guiding piles to the bottom of the river, and the next joint, of the same weight and size, put over it, when the divers go down and, placing bands of vulcanised indiaruber between the rims or flanges, screw them both so firmly together as to be perfectly water tight. As the joints above are added one by one, the weight of the whole tube sinks it equally through themud and gravel till it will go no further, when a new process com mences. A steam pump, of Mr. Woodford's patent—one of the simplest and most powerful machines of the kind ever invented —is set to work, and pumps the water out of ca vating the earth out of th e tubs, go down and begin ex the tube in a single hou r, when Inez which goes lower and lower as they work, joint up o n joint being added on above day. ists the weight of the tube ; le b d u g t es y e l r eyf t for the purpose with At last the increasing the t the London o of 1 4 a f y t a r heavily, all round its as s density it sin o k f s i i t nt is er t i h or en on lo w ad r e o d ug e h q t u i e r l o ly n , masses of iron ballast, which again take it lower and lower, till at last, when some 30ft into the London clay, no pres sure above or excavationbelow will move itraore. One that had reached its bearings was weighted with 900 tons of rails at the top without getting it down half an inch. When so fixed the iron tube is about 65ft long, reaching from high water 30ft into the clay, and the gloomy circular aperture then precisely resembles in size and depth the present ap pearance of the mouth of the terrible Hartley pit shaft. The last labour is then to excavate a circular chamber at the base of the tube some 24ft in diameter, and 31t deep, which is filled up with concrete when the hardened bricks are laid in cement up to Oft below low water mark, when the blocks of masonry begin. These blocks have been chosen from the largest stones of old Westminster bridge, and after being laid they are fastened together with brass cramps and dovetailed in, like the keystones of an arch,so as in strength to be equal to a single block of 18ft diameter and 4ft thick. All of the iron caissons that can be seen above low water is then removed, and the groups of iron columns built and fastened together in the way we have described. Most of these piers and columns being ready, and all on the south side complete, the work of building the main centre girder has already been commenced there. These girders are to be wrought iron and on the lattice principle, somewhat similar, but much larger than those at the sides of Mr. Ilawkshaw's bridge at Hungerford, to resist tension and compression. They will be 16 feet deep; but the centre one, as having to bear the transverse iron beams which unite it to the outer girders, will be made of extra strength. The two outer once will at each span be tested with a strain of 400 tons—the inner one up to 800 tons, and the weight of wrought iron used in the three will be no less than 3,500 tons. The scaffolding required for the erection of these main beams has to be almost as strong as the beams themselves. Moro than 70,000 cubic feet of timber have been used in constructing it. The mixed wood and iron lattice framework which our readers may now see at the top of all is what is called the American trues. it is precisely similar to the framework by which all the railways in Canad a an d America are carried over the broadest rivers. This has been constructed, with the staging underneath it, to support the first span of the girder while being built, and its stn ength may be judged when we say that this scaffold ng has been loaded to a ton and a half per foot without K INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH winsKy rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i 4 Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at NOTICE.—BELLA. DONNA, the New Novel, at all Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 8, GREAT WMDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded 4 Kinahan's LL Whisky." 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WOLLARD , S PERFUMED SULPHUR IVIL SOAP and CREAM for ordinary toilet purposes, and "BAREGE' SULPHUR CREAM, for Baths, free from disagreeable odour ; an infallible means of preserving the skin and body in perfect health ; they are also an effectual remedy in curing local and cutaneous affections and rheuma tism. Highly patronised and recommended by the most eminent physicians ,see Testimonials). Tablets of Soap, from Nos. 1 to 5, according to the degree of sulphur they contain, sold at the depot, 2, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, London, W., and at alt chemists. Prospectuses and testimonials sent on application. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. CANTERBURY HALL—THE GHOST in the k.J MAGIC FOUNTAINS, surpassing any of the Trans formation Scenes of the Season--one of the most beautiful affects ever produced. The scene, "The Tempest ;" Ariel, Miss E. Townley. The flight of Ariel throuirh the Fairy Fountains is certainly a triumph of art.—Vido rublio tress. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions of the Estabishment as usual, including' Operatic Selections, &e ; Comedy by Unswort'n (the great Stump Orator), Eugene, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, J:Jester, 'l'. gaelagan, &c. Admission, 6d. ; Stalls arid Balcony, ls. Open every -Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.— Another GRAND CHANGE of PERFORMANCES. —FRANCOSPS CIRQUE IMPERIAL still mill:111es to attract most fashionable and crowded houses. —First week of the sisters Irma and Mathilde Monfroid, the only accom plished female riders in England—Jules Perez, the star rider of the world—J. S. Case on the magic wire —Patterson's troupe of performing Dogs—B. Franconi's wonderful trick horses— Arthur and Bertrand, the unequalled French Clowns —together with the whole of the double company will ap pear at each representation. Illuminated day performances on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at Two o'clock; evenings at halt-past Seven. Admission —Private Boxes, 218. ; Itoserved Seats, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Promenade, ls. ; Gallery, 6d. O YAL ALHAMBRA.- The wonderful Performing Elephant AJAX on SATURDAY ➢LORNING NEXT, the 23d instant, at Two o'clock, and at each subsequent representation for a limited period. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar. Baker-street.—Great Treat for the Juveniles during the Holidays.—The series of Models of the Kings of England, from the Conqueror to that of her presentliPljesty, attired in the magnificent 0 0 etumes of their respe^,live periods, is now nearly completP and in the Chamfer of Physiognomy are several new rAditions. ts. ; extra rooms, 6d. O p en fr om . .11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10. 4GYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay. market. NOTICE. —M. JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS will be continued at the above elegant rooms. Admission Is. Conductor— M, JUL LIEN. Solo Performers—Messrs. Mosca, Tyler, Horton, Snelling, Progratski, M'Kenney, &c. Doors Open at 8, commence at half-past. Manager, M. GRENET. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQIJARK THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astccs ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, Egyptian . Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission , One binning (tor Gentlemen only). //L „ - - - • Tr. • N -A- . . ' (0! c.a 4 +; „„.l etZ, I'l .11: • • $ 7 , 1 , , , (V 1..•`: g- vv , • • < 40, • 4,. 4 1 7 . - 3 4' 4 , ht " • ~ - 1411 1114 . dPIOP 0- l/ Zta'' • ROTT "1). Y . 441M. ‘ • Iv+ • t • DIE ir . • sign of yield or weakness of any kind. When the spans of the main girders join above the groups of columns their junctions will be concealed by massive ornamental castings, which will be relieved with gilt and colour. In the same style the termination of the girders at each end will be ornamented with exceedingly bold and massive castings. On the Surrey side of the river the enormous range of buildings which are being erected aro intended mainly for a goods station—a great central depot for all the traffic that will be brought from the Great Northern by the connexion of the Metropolitan Railway and that coming from the south. Abutting on the deep water of the river, the company have here got a range of waterside premises which are not surpassed on any part of the Thames and the necessity for taking their line at a high level to meet their railway bridge, has enabled them to build whet may almost be termed acres of fire•proof warehouses under their river-side station. All goods coming by water are leafed on trucks in these warehouses, and thence raised in batches by one of Sir William Armstrong's powerful hydraulic lifts to the level of the line above, and thence despatched with out further change to any part of England north or south. From this point of the river-side station on the Surrey side the line passes through, and has or will have stations at the Borough, Elephant and Castle, Cambeiwell-gate, Camber well-road, and thence the main line continues due south to Chatham, Dover, or, in fact, anywhere over the south of England, while the Metropolitan line is extended round by Brixton, Clapham, Wandsworth, South Lambeth, and Bat tersea, into Victoria, making junctions en route with all the southern lines. North of Blackfriars the trains will run into the Metropolitan Underground line, and thence to Pad dington, and so on by the Great Western and West London Junction round by Notting-hill, Kensington, Brompton, Chelsea, Battersea, and by Battersea-park over the Victoria bridge into Victoria-station, thus completing one perfect inner circle of railway, which embraces nearly all the chief districts in the metropolis. But the Victoria station can by no means accommodate this threatened addition to its traffic. Already there is more traffic in and out of that station daily than at any other station, and one Thames bridge is not enough for it. A short line, therefore, is proposed to be built from the south side of Battersea, so as to give the Chatham and Dover an independent Thames bridge of their own into Victoria station. This will make the tenth new bridge across the Thames begun on completed within the last four years, eight of which are for railways. By next June it is expected that the city branch will be ready for its traffic into Earl-street, and by next Christmas the circle will be completed by the routes we have named, and the distances of this unwieldly metropoli. lis reduced, in point of time, to as manageable dimensions as those of a country town. This, however, is not likely to be the only new line into the metropolis, and to the pro moters of those who hope to follow we would say, in the interest of the public, go and see the new stations which the Chatham and Dover are about to give their passengers. They are models of convenience, of cheerfulness, and even comfort. They are models, in faot, of what such stations should be, but which the public have never got till now. To the engineers, Mr. Cu.bbit and Mr. Turner, is due the praise of having designed the stations en such a compre hensive and liberal scale, and the contractors, Sir Morton Peto, Mr. Betts, and Mr. Crampton, have carried out the designs splendidly. VALETTA, Jan. 17.—Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ship Trafalgar, 72, Capt. Mason, arrived on the 16th inst., in three days from Corfu, and by her intelligence has been received that the dismantling of the fortifications had been completed, and that preparations were being made for blow ing them up. The storeship Supply was expected there from England to embark stores. The Trafalgar brought with her military prisoners and naval supernumeraries. She will leave for England and Gibraltar on Monday or Tuesday, after embarking military and naval invalids, 50 old guns, and 700 bags of biscuit for the Channel squadron. The Chanticleer, 17, Commander J. E. F. Risk, left -resterday for Beyrout. She will replace the Pelican, 17, ander Comber, which had been ordered to return sling on her way at Suda Bay and the Piteous. sting Commander Lieut. Boger, left the to relieve the Surprise, 4, Com `he western coast of Greece. 'o Malta. Instructions Icarus to proceed -settled state Al term Coma... to Malta, sae- The Icarus, 11, b. same day for the Pirate., mander %V. 11. Whyte, on The latter ship has been ordered - were issued five or six months ago for tte. home, but were cancelled on account of the n_ of affairs in Greece. She has now exceeded the us,- of commission by upwards of a year, and considerabl6 appointment has consequently been caused on board by the absence of fresh orders of recall. Tho Meannee, 60, Capt. G, Wodehouse, which was to have left the Piraeus some time since for Malta, has been detained there, as the Am bassador did not wish to diminish the strength of the vqua dron. It is rumoured, however, that she will be permitted to leave soon for this island. Rear-Admiral Yelverton has made a short cruise to Poros, where he wasmet by the Fox hound, 4, Corn. W. H. Anderson, but has since returned to the Pirseas. The Foxhound afterwards sailed for Nauplia and Zaute for a few days' cruise. No change had taken place of late in the foreign ships stationed at Athens. The Turkish corvette Broussa had been on a trip to Syra, with the Turkish Minister, but with what particular object had not transpired. The Austrian screw corvette Conte Dan dolo, Capt. Barone S. Dawdan Olewsky, arrived on the 14th inst. from Alexandria and Suds Bay, and awaits orders herd. Py her we learn that her Majesty's ships Racoon, 22, Capt. Count Gleichen, and the Psyche, 2, despatch vessel, Lieut. Cora. R. Sterne, were still at Alexandria on the Bth inst., awai.,,Log the arrival of the Countess of Elgin. Her brother, the Earl o: Durham, has passed through Malta to meet her on her way „Lrougla Egyp t. News has been received from Gibraltar that her esty's ship Magi cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, had returnee ' from convey ing Sir Moses Montefioro to Saffi, and was at G ibr. taron the 6th inst., where she was to remain a fortnight. It w. expected that by that time Sir Moses Monteflure would have completed his benevolent mission. She was then to return to Melte. Her Majesty's ships in port are the Marl borough, 121 (bearing the flag of Vice. Admiral R. Smart, K.H.) ; the Hibernia receiving ship (bearing the flag of Rear admiral H. T. Austin, C,8.) ; the Trafalgar, 72, the Resistance, 16, ironclad ; the Phcobe, 35 ; the Cossack, 20; the Hydra and Firefly, surveying ship; and the Growler, gunboat. An accident has occurred to the Malta and Alexandria electric cable, and some more communication is interrupted. The injury is supposed to exist not far from Bengazi and to be mechanical, as the stoppage was quite sudden, and took place without any previous deterioration or fluctuation of electric force while a message was being sent through the line to Alexandria. Every effort is being made to discover the exact locality of the damage, which it is considered very likely to have been caused by some ship's anchor drag ging during the late violent storm on the coast. An officer from the station at Bengazi, attended by a proper escort from the Caimacan, has been despatched with instructions to proceed along the shore to see if signs existed of any ves sel having been driven on the coast, and if necessary to prosecute his researches 100 miles to the eastward. Admiral Smart has been most ready in offering any assistance in his power ; but men of war, from obvious reasons, are ill adapted for work of this kind, and it is feared nothing can be done till the arrival from England of a vessel fitted with all the necessary appliances for the purpose. On the 13th inst., an hour before the interruption of communication, very bad weather was announced at Alexandria. The message added that a violent gale seemed imminent. Here, at Malta, indeed in most parts of the Mediterranean from which accounts have reached us, such a long continuance of stormy weather has been almost unprecedented. The unusually low temperature and constant rains have been very unfavourable for invalids. A telegram just received from Bengazi states that the expedition had been obliged to return to that place in consequence of the state of the weather. The America, old wooden sailing frigate, having super. sedod the Monarch as target ship at Portsmouth, is now having armour-plates from Messrs. John Brown and Co., of Sheffield, and other firms bolted on her sides for testing in the usual manner with the 68-pounder and cast-iron shot, and possibly for experimental practice with spherical steel shot and sheeL Recent experiments at Shoeburyness and Portsmouth have proved that spherical steel shot fired from any smooth-bore gun at short range against armour plates of 5i inches in thickness are so destructive that our present armour plating must be worse than useless at close quarters. The spherical steel shot may, however, be fired from a simply rifled gun, and its effect when so fired from this description of weapon upon armour plates has yet to be ascertained. The great success which has attended the use of steel is probably quietly affecting a revolution in the great iron-clad question which the united talent of our numerous great gun makers has hitherto been totally capable of _ac complishing. The following appointments were made on Saturday a, the Admiralty :—Cornelius H. Ward, acting assist.-surg. to the Meander; Edward J. Butler, assist.-surg., to the Royal Adelaide ; Wm. Anderson (b), assist,-surg., to the Hector; Arthur M'Kenna, assist.-surg., to the Prince Con sort ; George F. Elliott, aasist.-surg., to the Hogue; James Ambler, engineer in the Orontes, promoted. THE ARMY. A circular memorandum having been recently issued from the War-office, containing instructions for the placing of regimental libraries on a more satisfactory footing, besides directing apartments to be set apart or ,constructed for sol diers' recreation robins, the authorities of the camp at Col chester have placed a hut at the disposal of a committee of each battalion to be used in accordance with the terms of the circular. In order to carry out the new system, the Go vernment, besides providing furniture for the rooms and supplying apparatus for various amusing and harmless genies, grants to each company in every battalion £2 10s. per annum for the purpose of purchasing books, repairing damaged books, and meeting casual incidental expenses. Each recreation room will be supplied with the principal daily and weekly papers, magazines, &c., the expense of which will be covered by the Government grant and the subscriptions of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men. The subscriptions are not under any circum stances to exceed ls. per month for an officer, 6d. per month for a sergeant. 4d. per month for a corporal, and 3d. per month for a private. The battalions at the camp at Colchester have now opened their rooms, and at each of them refreshments can also be obtained. The Rev. Mr. Henderson has been appointed Presbyterian minister at the camp at Colchester, and has arrived at that station. A detachment, consisting of 1 sergeant and 20 rank and file of the 2d battalion. 6th Regiment, has left the camp for Portsmouth, for the purpose of being employed as a guard over convicts in the West Indies. A draught of 35 rank and file of the let battalion sth Regiment has also left the camp en route for Shorncliffe, to join the service com panies of the regiment at that station. THE BELLE OF THE BALL. This day, at all Libraries, in 2 vols., E SMUGGLER CHIEF. By GUSTAVE AMIARD. *** "This is decidedly the author's best novel , and it stands alone In the dexterity with which the female charac ters are delineated. Anything more graphic or better sus tained than is the interest in the heroine we have not had before from this writer, and we heartily congratulate him upon the achievement. Every one will be satisfied with this work." -- • - • London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. This Day, in Two Vols., Demy Octavo, 325., YEARS IN AMERICA. By THOMAS LOW NICHOLS. 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With verbatim copies of the Innkeeper's Limited Liability Act, the General Licensing Act, and Forms. By IticitAnn T. Tinswzr,L, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. London : Lockwood aad Co , 7, Stationers' Hall-c:urt. RI:AUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME BA,tIIIEL ON " FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY, By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A., New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. T " 0 XF'ORD, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., T EIE SLAVE, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA. DEL DESIINO—Verdi ; by the fol lowing talented artistes .—Misses !Russell, Townley, Fitz- Henry, Vs almsley, Tyrrell, and Ellison; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, ..tc. Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the cele brated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHAL KENBA.CH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSWORTIT (" or any oilier man "I, Eugene, W. Randall,W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, George Hutchen son, and the marvellous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and Foster. - • •• THIS EVENING, will be produced, supported by the entire comany, a new and original Cantati , entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield 111o3e1ey, Esq., and com posed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment, Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. ROYAL FREE I T :OSPITAL, G ' R ray s-inn-road, in the immediat e vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way, Terminus, Kinies„a„, Patron—lP:L. Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron — .ills Royal Highness the Prince of WALE S,K.G Presiden!,—llis Grace the Duke of BUCCLECCH, K.G. Treasurer —Edward Masterman, Esq. The "Liumerous and urgent appeals of the Si:k poor for ad mmiss%an compel the Committ e e to entreat the bounty of the am.uent and humane , a s the medical of fi cers are daily obliged 1 .1 treat as out-patients many distres-ing cases which. with more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and ( ; 43 -; Ransom and Co.;• Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith , Payne, and Co.: Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barcla y and Co. ; D en i s on and Co. W .Iliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney a nd Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; I. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from fo till 5. STANFORD S. SMITE( Secretary. THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. _ The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow ng documents from Mexico LETTER FROM GENERAL MEDIA TO GENERAL KIXONTE. Guanajuato, Dec. 8, 1863. Respected Sir,—l occupied San Miguel Allende on the sth, and we met with as warm a reception there as at San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, and Celeya. General Donay, whose division encamped around the town, arrived here on the 6th. Towards the evening, the French camp changed itself into a pleasant promenade, on which the principal families of San Miguel assembled. A large concourse of the people came also to welcome the French with a military band; they cheered the Emperor, his Highness the Grand Duke, the Regency, and the Empire. General Donay dis played much satisfaction in consequence of these public ovations. To-day at Guanajuato there was great rejoicing on the part of the inhabitants, although I expected coolness. is con sequence of the influence exercised by Doblado ; but it ap pears that the latter, in losing the capital, lost also his former prestige, leaving nothing behind him but the re•- membrance of his crimes. I shall duly report to you all subsequent events, and I remain your affectionate friend and servant, (Signed) TOMAS MEDIA. NOTE ADDRESSED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE TINDER-SECRE TARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS EXCELLENCY M. CRITIEREZ DE ESTRADA. Imperial Palace, Mexico, Dec. 17, 1863. Sir,—As was to be expected, the campaign in the in terior has been a triumphal march for the Franco-Mexican army. The inhabitants, bowed beneath the yoke of dema gogic tyranny, received our troops with indescribable en thusiasm. The enemy's bands, pursued with energy, re treat as our forces advance; so that, withour ,fear of deceiving myself, I am enabled to assure your excellency that at the end of this year the empire will be recognised by the majority of the nation. The Franco-Mexican troops have already occupied Clore taro, Celaya, San Miguel de Allende. Guanajuato, Morelia, and the intermediate points, proclaiming the empire, and recognising his Imperial Highness the Archduke Maxi milian as Emperor of Mexico. Doblado has evacuated Guanajuato, and taken the direction of Guadalajara, with a small body of troops, who, as they go further from their homes, desert him and come to join the imperial army. On the Bth of this month Gen. Mejia, with his division, occupied Guanajuato, which place Gen. Donay occupied the following day with his own troops. These two generale will probably march towards Zocatecas, while Gen. Bazaine, with the divisions under Castagny and Berthier, will march upon Guadalajara, which is threatened by the imperial forces under the command of Gen. Jovar, who have been ordered rot to take the town, lest, after a three years' con test, it should be impossible for them to avoid the disorders by which the taking of a town by storm is accompanied. Gen. Marquez. with his division, is now at Morelia, en trusted with the pacification of this important department. We receive daily information of acts of adhesion to the empire from the points.. occupied by our troops, which proves that as soon as the inhabitants acquire the convic tion that under the authority of the Imperial Government real liberty is guaranteed to them, they hasten to place themselves under the protection of the only Government which can save them from utter ruin.— I have, &c., The Honorary Secretary of State entrusted with the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs, J. M. ARROYO. NOTE ADDRESSED BY HIS EXCELLENCY TEE UNDER SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO M. OUTIEREZ DE ESTRADA. Imperial Palace of Mexico, Dec. 15, 1863. Excellency,—l have just received your letter, dated from Paris the sth November last, informing me of the speech delivered on that day by hits Majesty the Emperor of the French at the claming of the legislative session. Twenty , four hours before the receipt of this note the telegraph despatch upon the same subject arrived, which your excellency had taken care to have transmitted from Puebla, the efficaciousness of which has been duly appre ciated by the supreme Government. The regency of the empire has profited with the most lively satisfaction by the part of the speech relative to the affairs of Mexico, because in addition to the propriety of the terms in which it is conceived we remark therein the inte- rest of his Majesty the Emperor in our cause. It is this, as your excellency observes, which firmly guarantees that no opposition shall be made to the conclusion of the work which has been undertaken and already so far advanced for the political and social regeneration of our country. The regency has likewise seen with extreme pleasure the just and merited appreciation shown by the Emperor in this imposing and solemn act of the eminent merit and high qualities of his Imperial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, whom he fully recognises as Emperor of Mexico, a circumstance of extreme and incalculable importance for the development of the events transpiring at the present day, end which so greatly affect our happiness. There faots and those rapidly succeeding here by the occupation of the principal groups of the population of the interior (as your excellency will see from the annexed documents), lead us to hope that in a short time Prince Maximilian will come to a decision, and commence his voyage to the empire the future destinies of which are confided to him by the ma- jority of its inhabitants, In making this reply to your excellency, I renew with pleasure the assurance of my distinguished consideration. The Under Secretary, &c., J. M. ARBOYO. NOTE ADDRESSED BY THE UNDER SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO HIS EXCELLENCY M. GUTIEREZ DE ESTRADA Imperial Palace, Mexico, Deo. 17, 1863. Sir,—l have the honour to confirm the letter addressed to you by me on the 10th inst., and forwarded by the French packet, giving you an account of the state of the campaign undertaken in the interior of the country by the Franco-Mexican army. In this note I announced to your Excellency the early occupation of Guanajuato, and in reality this occupation was effected on the Bth inst., the date on which the town was :evacuated by Don Manuel Doblado and the forces under his orders, who took the road towards Leon in the greatest disorder, leaving numerous deserters on the way. A party of the Imperial troops have been despatched in pursuit, and it is probable that the fugitives will in a short time entirely disperse. In this manner one of the strongest elements on which the dissidents reckoned to oppose to in tervention will have disappeared. Your Excellency wit: acknowledge, after this fact, how well founded has been the opinion of those who maintained that no serious reist ance would bo offered, and that the campaign would promptly and successfully be concluded. The town of San Miguel el Grande has been likewise occupied, as well as Trapuato and other towns and com munes of the department of the Guanajuato. It appears that San Juan de los Lagos has been captured by Colonel Hermeno, of the Imperial army. Official notice of this event has not yet been received, but it appears certain, and if it be so your Eminence will perceive its full import ance in view of the approaching submission of Guadalajara, since it is believed that San Juan de los Lagos is one of the most considerable towns of the department. The lion. Secretary of State charged with the Secre taryship of the Department, J. M. ARROYO. The Moniteur thus refers to the above document in its bulletin :—" We draw the attention of our readers to the correspondence from Mexico which we publish elsewhere. These documents show the extreme eagerness with which the Franco-Mexican troops are welcomed by the population in the towns and the localities successively occupied, and augur that in a short time the greater part of Mexico will h a v e spontaneously adhered to the empire. This news shows with what satisfaction the words of the Emperor Napoleon have been saluted which were attered in the speech at t►he opening of the legisla tive session, and which referred to the interests of Mexico." THE ENTIRE NUMBER OF PERIODICAL PUBLICA tions of all sorts now established in London is 729.' Of these no fewer than 359 are monthly publications; while 254 are dailies and weeklies, 81 are quarterlies, and 35 are Trans actions of Societies. No. 22,334 .e ) ,;,,,--, w PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. THE SHAKSPERE MEMORIAL. SENT TO COVENTRY.—That the Shakspere Memorial Committee appreciate the importance of doing something is apparent from the fact that they induced the Archbishop of Dublin to postpone his immediate duties in his new see for the purpose of presiding at their adjourned meeting on Mon day. 13 ut even Dr. Trench's grave office, and his skill and experience in managing a meeting, did notdo much towards getting the scheme into working order. The first business done consisted in adopting a suggestion of some Coventry weavers, that all Shaksperians should, on the 23d of April, wear a bunch of Coventry ribbons, whereupon the Coventry manufacturers subscribed 25 guineas to the fund. A good eye to business is always kept by Coventry. Being normally on the very verge of starvation, the Coventry manufacturers are always on the.leok out for national celebrations. Coven try made a good thing out of the Princess's wedding, and because Sir John Falstaff would not march through Coven try with a certain ragged regiment, Coventry has got a sort of literary right to get something out of Shakspere. This combination of the mercantile with the monumental and poetical spirit might be carried a good deal further. If the committee can get 25 guineas by ordering all the Shak sperians to wear Coventry rosettes, why should they not get another 25 guineas by proclaiming the necessity of Spitalfields silk scarfs? There are plenty of trades men who will subsidize the National Fund on these terms. A. Moses coat, or Sy denham trousers, or a Townend hat, or Tower of Babel gloves--all these things are open to the Committee to recommend, and scrape a percentage out of them.—Saturday Review. A WORD FOR THE MAJORITY WHO REJECTED MR. THACKERAY'S NAME JUST BEFORE HIS LAMENTED DEATH.—The truth is, we fear, that the lamentable death of Mr. Thackeray, rendered still more melancholy by its awful suddenness, has afforded to his partisans a favour able opportunity, as they suppose, for wreaking vengeance upon the " Shakspere Committee" for declining to go on their knees to a gentleman who appeared to have treated their special invitation to join in the " movement" with contempt ; and hence, the secession and the uncalled-for publication of the reasons assigned for it.— Weekly Register. SHAKSPERE'S HISTORICAL DRAMAS.--The entire cycle of them will be performed at the Tercentenary at Weimar. Richard 11., Henry IV., first and second parts, Henry V. (never before given in Germany) were produced there, in a new version by Dinglestedt (with several scenic alterations) and achieved a complete success.—Athenceum. THREATENED COLLAPSE OF THE WHOLE PROJECT. — To all appearance it is becoming useless to talk about the matter, or to discuss what form the Shakspere Commemo ration had best assume. Unless there shall be some sud den inburst of influential energy to the rescue, for shame sake, of a cause to which many more are pledged in senti ment than the few that have practically mismanaged it, the whole business seems to be staggering now to dissolution. —Reader. A GOOD-HUMOURED JEST AT THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THE COMMEMORATICN.-Mr. Hepworth Dixon and his colleagues to march—we will not say through Coventry, by which road the dissentient Nine would send them—but from Chcapside to Westminster Hall. There they are to drink an .ZEsthetic Tea, to the tune of Shakspere and the musical glasses, with a recitation of Tupper's Prize Ode for this occasion, beginning— " Three hundred anniversaries Have gone their empty round, But this one the disburser is Of thirty thousand pound ? " We aro tempted to quote another stanza of this effusion, bu it, it will keep till the proper time. It prophesies a com bined ;_icto , ry of the expensive Fine Arts over financial Pru dence and nod Taste, so often defeated in their resistance to those monun;ental designs which encumber the streets an d squares of Lono,:u• But let that be as it may. The projected statute of Shake ;ere, with its accompanying bas reliefs and the architectural s Lriue which is to serve it for au umbrella, will either be a thins' of beauty and a joy for e v e r, or else it will be a thing of I.lFliness and stupidity, which we may learn to pass with avertee eyes, as mon do in Trafalgar-square. In this case, it will do u,o greater harm than other unsightly erections, of which nobod7 complains. It would be unkind,*, we think, to deny an nabs;r of our fellow-citizens who might choose to invest £30,060 in a mass of bronze or marble the usual permission to set it up anywhere they please out of the way of our street traffic. Why then should the recusant members of the committee' not content themselves with a simple act of retirement from these proceedings? If they do not care for a bit of Coven try ribbon—if they dont wish to walk in a theatrical mas querade—if they would ratter not take tea in Westminster Hall, or batten on the feast of sentimental rhapsody and imbibe the flew of a prize-medallist's song, which the Exe cutive Council will provide for them—why can't they leave those innocent pleasures for the gentle souls who like them P We will not echo the tone of arcrimonious hostility by which their letter seems to be inspired.—London Rev4w. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated _London News.) The will of Florentia Elizabeth, Lady Nightingall, relict of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.8., was proved in London under £120,000. Lady Nightingall was the daughter of Sir Lionel Darell, Bart., married in 1800, and became a widow in 1829. Her ladyship's will bears date 1861, with two codicils, 1862-3. The executors are the Rev. Sir William Lionel Darell, Bart., M.A.., her nephew, and Edmund Williams, Esq. There are numerous small legacies to relatives and godchildren, and to a servant. A freehold estate which her ladyship purchased at Westhorp is to be held in the same manner as other estates in the parish under the will of her late husband. Her freehold estate at Earl-Stonham Creeting, Suffolk, her. ladyship devises to her nephew and executor, the Rev. Sir William Lionel Darell, Bart., M.A., recto r of Tretherne, Gloucester shire, appointing him also residuary legatee of both real and personal estate, leaving a legacy of £5,000 to his daughter Flora, her ladyship's great niece. The will of the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Richard Whately, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, was proved in London—under £40,000 personalty in Eugland ; the execu • tors and trustees being the Rev. William Law Pope, M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, the Rev. Ed ward William Whately (testator's son), Jane Whately (his daughter), and Charles Brent Wale, Esq. (his son-in-law). The will was executed in May, 1860, and a codicil in July following. To his eldest child he leaves his books, MSS., and copyright; to bis eldest unmarried daughter he leaves his furniture, plate, &c. To each of his four children a sum equal to £12,000, dividng equally amongst them his real and the residue of his personal estate.'. The will of Edward Barmes ter, Esq., of St. Helen's. place, London, and of Clapham, was proved in London under £140,000. The executors are his brothers-in-law , Edward Broune and Henry Cotton, Esqrs., John Coles Symes, Esq., and John Harris, Esq, of Hyde-park -garden s. His two daughters are the principal legatees under the will. lie leaves to them his real estate, together with the residue of the personalty, to be divided b e t we en them in equal moie ties. The presentation plate which he received from the London Dock Company he leaves to his eldest daughternd a to her male issue; or failure, to his other daughter and her male issue ; but, should neither leavethen to hei his ne arest male kindred bearing his name,to be held as an r loom. The following are the c haritable bequests—London Orphan Asylum, Lond on Hospital, and Marine Society, each £100; Female Orphan School, the poor of Woodford parish, the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the So ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel, each £5O ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, British Orphan Asylum, and the Dis pensary, Clapham, each £25; and to the Clapham Boys' Parochial Schools, 19 guineas. PROJECTED NEW RAILWAY OVER TIIE PYRE , NESS.—In the sitting of the Spanish Cortes of the 12th inst., Senor Carriguiri brought in a bill for the con struction of a railway from Pampeluna to Eguy, with pro longation over the Pyrenees to Bayonne, in France. The hon. deputy stated that careful surveys of the projected lino had been made, and that there were no extra ordinary engineering difficulties in the way of its execution. Ho asked not for a subvention or gua rantee of interest on the part of the Government, but only an ordinary concession. The proposition was referred to a committee, and is likely to be . reported upon in a favourable sense. This newly projected railway, it may . interesting to state, is to pass over the celebrated valley .31 Roncesvalles—in French, Roncevaux—where the rear guard of Charlemagne's army, under Roland, was defeated and destroyed in 778. There is to be station at this place ; and the great Roland, the model of the knight of all ages, `will at last receive a monument, in t he sha p e of a railway porter's lodge,—Railway News. ,~~,! IN ENV S PAP E ....--r7,7p 0 -- , - N IMr. Newdegate, M.P., on the MaltiiitZfli:-72:1?;;;..-. F 4 . -- . - t.,,:- ~, . ii 4nlte .V\,,,... \t,,' , ,t;' : gli A county meeting, convened by the h ~ O , - : . ...,19-5,/,,1" - -4, Mr. C. M. Caltlicott, of Holbrook Grang ,::'r . 4 ::` , ,,,ri.* pliance with a numerously-signed nquisite&i , ,:.,: . • As!-4. k'AilW held at the Shire Hall, Warwick, on Saturday IM, a S to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the repeal of the malt tax. The chair was taken by the high sheriff, and the spacious hall was filled by the leading agriculturists of Warwickshire. The meeting was addressed by the Hon. C. L. Butler, of • Rugby ; Mr. S. Umbers, of Wappenbury ; M r . Councillor Baldwin, of Birmingham ; Mr. J. IL Burberry, of Kenilworth ; Mr. King, of Park Ha .' i ; Mr. Gustavus Smith, of Goldsborough; Mr. H. C. Wise, of Woodcote; and Mr. T. Henley, of R.:d ford, who moved and seconded a series of resolu tions, all of which were unanimously adopted by the meeting, to the effect that the malt tax is incon sistent with the principles of free trade; that far txn are pr::.ctical,y pr,cluded by the high duties .tnd excise regu!atic.p, from msatir.g inferior bariey for the purpcs:. , s of feeding stock; that the con sumers of bLer in Er.ghnd are plwed in unequal competition with foreigners, on account of the duties levied upon it; and that the tax was unjust toward the labouring classes, by imposing a Leavy duty upon a beverage necessary for their support in the discharge of their arduous duties. A petition to Parliament, embodying the above resolutions, was also adopted, and that the members for War wickshire be requested to support it was also unanimously adopted. Mr. J. N. NEWDEGATE, M.P., then rose, and said —As the only county member present,perhaps you will allow me to say a few words in undertaking a duty which is always a pleasure—the duty of presenting a petition from this county to the Hovse of Commons. I concur with you com pletely in this—that the imposition of the malt tax, as an excise duty, upon one of the princi pal articles of agricultural produce, now stands in a position that renders it indefensible, because the other excessive duties which affected trade and commerce have been removed, whilst the malt tax, with all its restrictive prohibitions, preeses unfairly upon the agricultural interests. I think you are perfectly right in coming forward and representing to Parliament that, since the excise duties upon trade and commerce have been repealed, it is unfair that agriculture should continue longer subject to the restrictions which the malt tax imposes upon it. (Cheers.) Mr. Brindsley, whose position in Birmingham gives weight in the country to his remarks, in order to justify the abolition of the tax went so far as to say that the revenue ought to be reduced £10,000,000, and if any deficiency was the result it should be supplied by increasing the pro perty and income tax. You will not expect me to enter into all those questions which might arise if a redaction of £6,000,000 of income, or £10,000,000 of expenditure, were to take place ; but I may call your attention to the fact that you pay a tax upon Schedule B which is not assessed upon your profits, but in proportion to the rent which you pay. I remember that the Chancellor of the Exchequer adverted to this in 1860, and said there is an appa rent increase in the property assessed under Schedule B, of 19 per cent., whilst under Shedule A the in crease is only 11 per cent., and under Schedule A 9 per cent. Then it is obvious, if the tax under Schedule B was increased you would have to pay, no upon your profits, but upon your rents—upon your outgoings, and not upon your incomings. This might become a very serious matter. lam aware the malt tax restrictions press heavily upon you ; but it becomes a question of profit and loss if its removal should be compensated for by the in crease of taxes under Schedule B. I should be happy, however, to think that increased rent signi fied increased profits to farmers; but I am inclined to think it is not always so. If you were to test the incomes of farmers during the last four or five years you would find in reality not an increase, but a very considerable reduction. It would not, there fore, be prudent of me to go into Parliament and say " I come here to abolish six millions of revenue," and shut my eyes to the means which may be re sorted to to make up the loss, because it is quite possible, inster.d of serving the agricultural inte rests, I might be the means of inducing the House of Commons to substitute other taxes which you might find equally ,onerous. I have been called a very obstinate man in public life, and a very obsti. nate man I have been in one particular—in bolding that the agricultural interest is the primary interest of this country—(cheers) —and because I hare never lost sight of that fact in my public conduct, I have been called obstinate. (Cheers.) During the last 15 years many taxes have been removed which, in my opinicn—and experience proves it to be correct —were far less objectionable than the malt tax. In 1860 a millon of customs dutiee were cast aside that were not affected by the French treaty, iu defer ence to a theory which is not reciprocated by foreign nations. After showing that, from the position of European affairs, a reduction of £10,000,00 0 in the army and navy estimates would be impolitic, the hon. gentleman alluded to the fact of the manufacturing as wed as the agricultural community supporting the repeal of the malt tax, and pledged himself to do all that he consistently could to secure A repeal of the malt tax, if it could be accomplished without necessitating the substitu tion of any more objectionable impost. Sir Charles More aunt, M.P., addressed a letter to the chairman, regretting that he was unable, owing to a prior engagement, to be present, and stating—" I concur with the promoters of the meet ing in their object, and I think it should be a total and not a partial repeal. I will gladly present the memorial to the House of Commons ; and it is my intention to support a bill, which will be introduced this session by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, in favour of the total repeal of the malt tax." The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to he high sheriff for presiding. THE NEW BISHOP OF ELY, The Rev. Edward Herald Browne, 8.D., who who has been nominated to the bishopric of Ely, rendered vacant by the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Turton, was educated at Eton and Emmanuel Col lege, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1832, when he was 24th wrangler, and second in the third clam in classics. In 1863 he was ordained by Dr. Allen, who was then Bishop of Ely, and was for some time fellow and tutor of his college. In 1841 he was presented to the incumbency of St. Sidwell's, Exeter, he held that appointment until 1843, when he became vice-principal and professor of Hebrew at St. David s College, Lampeter, on the nomina tion of Dr. 011ivant, now Bishop of Liandaff, to a reg ius professership of divinity in the University of Cambridge. Daring his tenure of this office he was presented, by the Bishop of St. David's, to the pre bendal stall of Llandewr Aberarth, in the cathedral church of that diocese, and by the college to the sinecure rectory of Llandewr Velfrey, near Nar berth, Pembrokeshire. These appointments he held until 1849, when he was collated by the Bishop of Exeter to the vicarage of Kenwyn and St. Kea, near Truro, Daring the next ten years he worked. this large parish with great success, and in 1857 he was nominated by the Dean end Chapter of Exeter, of which cathedral he had meanwhile be come one of the prebendaries, to the vicarage of Heavitree, Devonshire. In the sane year he was appointed to a canonry residentiary in Exeter Cathedral, and on the appointment of Dr. Ellicott to the Bishopric of Gloucester and Bristol, suc ceeded him as Principal of the Exeter Training College for candidates for holy orders. Tne bishop nominate has also held during the last ten years the Norrisian professorship of divinity in the Uni versity of Cambridge. Ho is a moderately high churchman, a good preacher. nod for some time f past an active member of the Lower Hour t o story of t Convocation. He is the author of " Thirty-nine Articles," " S ermons on t h e Atone ment," and various theological works. be A CONTRAST TO " No CARDs!'---Ilis Royalilighs ness the Prince of Wales revived the good old custom, at his marriage, of sen din g slices of brid e - ca ke around to his friends and aoquaintanc,es ; and this fashion is now followed very extensively by our aristocracy, and will doubtless i.tgaia become general. 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